11 years - What a journey

[jimbo]

It's the morning after and it still feels so sad thinking that it's come to an end. Thought it might be a good idea for a thread where everyone can post their favourite moments of our Premier League years. I'm lucky having being there for most of them, however being 23 I can't remember too much pre Allardyce. This is the era I've grown up with, and to see it end really hurts.

So anyway, it's time to reflect on what's been a great 11 years and cheer ourselves up a bit! I'll go first, and have to say the trip to Munich.

[jimbo]

And where it all started..............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3-g7TZ4t7U

[officer_dibble]

Going top of the league after wooping leicester, beating liverpool and boro.

Arsenal 2-2, jay jay magic and wengers tie

2-1 and 1-0 at the filth

best performance when we battered arsenal 3-1

munich, obv

jay jay beating city on his own...he missed a pen!

birmingham last year

[Mar]

Ricketts vs. Man United.




Bolton 5-2 Aston Villa

[BWFC_Insane]

Beating Man Utd, two seasons in a row away at Old Trafford. Amazing moments.

Beating them at home for the first time in donkeys years.

The game at Portsmouth where we clinched Europe, asking Kamara for the scores so we could celebrate.

0-0 down at Southampton to leave survival in our hands the following week.

Beating Boro 2-1 to survive. Elation on a long journey home listening to West Ham fans moan. We were the centre of the football universe that day, with the title decided in advance.

Reading losing and us beating Sunderland 2-0 at home to effectively stay up.

[HM Murdock]

The Munich trip was ace, and also enjoying the beer in the square in Marseille and wanderers fans putting bubble bath in the fountain

Jay-Jay's screamer against West Ham

Ivan Campo and Fernando Heirro

Stelios scoring against arsenal again, the commentator saying "He's done it again!!"

[jaffka]

Diouf's dive at Blackburn.

[Whookam]

Doing Leeds

[ratbert]

Some of these will be put on the front page as a retrospective article, if no-one minds.

[officer_dibble]

Jay jay v west ham! of course

[Whookam]

"I've got a fax in my back pocket"

[jaffka]

SKD bullying Upson and making him throw a shedder, ah you know the rest...

[jimbo]

"I've got a fax in my back pocket"

Remember being so happy at the prospect of Rivaldo!

[jimbo]

Jussi's 2 penalty saves at Blackburn.

I remember the Darwen end being full of Wanderers fans (possibly our biggest away following in the Prem?). I was in there with a mate who was a Rovers fan who was sick as anything at the end. Great noise when Campo scored infront of us, and then pure pandemonium when Roberts and McCarthy missed their penalties in the last 10 minutes. Did Nolan get sent off in the melee after one of them as well?

[Leyther_Matt]

Did Nolan get sent off in the melee after one of them as well?

Yes after the second one, I think - didn't he ask the ref in no uncertain terms if he wanted to award a third penalty just to be on the safe side?

[truewhite15]

SKD's broken, dislocated finger vs West Ham a couple of years ago. He got up to score the winner that sent us on the run that kept us up.

[Harry Genshaw]

The 4-0 win at Everton which demonstrated we were a real force in the division. Unthinkable from that opening day at Leicester a few years earlier, when I went there just hoping we wouldn't get humiliated!

Plovdiv. There were better European nights, but being at our first competitive European away game was something I never thought I'd see in the dark days of the 1980s.

[James B]

Jussi's 2 penalty saves at Blackburn.

I remember the Darwen end being full of Wanderers fans (possibly our biggest away following in the Prem?). I was in there with a mate who was a Rovers fan who was sick as anything at the end. Great noise when Campo scored infront of us, and then pure pandemonium when Roberts and McCarthy missed their penalties in the last 10 minutes. Did Nolan get sent off in the melee after one of them as well?

yeah that was fantastic

[HM Murdock]

Did Nolan get sent off in the melee after one of them as well?

Yes after the second one, I think - didn't he ask the ref in no uncertain terms if he wanted to award a third penalty just to be on the safe side?

He also called the ref a "cheating c*nt"